What's your relationship with smoking?

Contributor: sixfootsex sixfootsex
I hate cigarette smoke... but I LOVE watching people smoke. It can be really sexy. I don't know why.
02/23/2011
Contributor: Stephanie Marie Stephanie Marie
I love smoking. But I only will smoke Swisher Sweets and black n Milds. I recently decided I like Al Capones as well. I doubt I will quit anytime soon. To much stress in the life to quit. Sometimes I just smoke one after another. Thoug hI gotta admit I get tired after swimming in the pool for 5 seconds now. lol. I do run out of breath pretty fast. Probably not good for my allergies. But oh well what can ya do.
02/23/2011
Contributor: sexyintexas sexyintexas
We all have to have bad habits
02/23/2011
Contributor: Stephanie Marie Stephanie Marie
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Originally posted by sexyintexas
We all have to have bad habits
Aint that the truth.
02/23/2011
Contributor: LittleBird LittleBird
I quit after smoking socially for a few months. I would smoke when I drank. I went away for the summer and became a total wild child. When I went back home I had to quit cold turkey and I was fine. Though now and then when sitting at a bar I lust for a smoke, but have yet to partake since that summer about two years ago.
03/13/2011
Contributor: ninaspinkturtle ninaspinkturtle
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Originally posted by El-Jaro
I just quit smoking about a week ago. I'm just wondering if anyone else has done this and what their input is.
i have quit before but stil smoke when i drink....its hard....
03/13/2011
Contributor: Crystal1 Crystal1
I have asthma and enough other health problems, so it never seemed like a good idea to me to ask for more.
03/13/2011
Contributor: ShadowKitten ShadowKitten
EWWWW smoking is gross and damages the health of the people around you more than your own! I'll never smoke! I rarely drink either because its an epic waste of cash in my opinion.
03/13/2011
Contributor: RonLee RonLee
I do believe that one can be "sort of" a smoker, I am. Many years ago I picked up a nice Dunhill pipe and will have a bowl or two maybe every month or so. I'll have a cigar about the same frequency, as well I'll have a cigarette a couple times a year with friends. I do understand that tobacco is addictive but I'm not addicted to it... just lucky from that perspective I guess.
03/13/2011
Contributor: jfree jfree
I've never smoked, but my mom used to. She quit after contracting pneumonia and would try to smoke while sick and figured it was as good a time as any to kick the habit. I have no real compunctions with anyone who smokes and only cough if it actually physically aggravates me instead of shaming people.
03/13/2011
Contributor: indiglo indiglo
I've never smoked, and don't plan to ever start. My man smokes, but not like a chimney.
03/28/2011
Contributor: slynch slynch
My wife and I are in our early 40s and have never even tried 1 cigarette.
03/28/2011
Contributor: Anjulie Anjulie
Congratulations on quitting! You can do it!
03/31/2011
Contributor: hjtee hjtee
I'm one of the lucky ones who quit first try. I didn't smoke very much or very often, so when I decided it was time to quit, I had one last cigarette, and that was the end.
04/02/2011
Contributor: Blooddragon Blooddragon
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Originally posted by El-Jaro
I just quit smoking about a week ago. I'm just wondering if anyone else has done this and what their input is.
Never have had the desire.
04/02/2011
Contributor: M121212 M121212
I answered that I tried it but don't like it. Really though, what I like is flavoured tobacco. I smoke it very infrequently, but do enjoy clove cigarettes and sheesha on occasion.
04/02/2011
Contributor: Errant Venture Errant Venture
Not a big fan of smoking, and never tried it.
07/26/2011
Contributor: Samy Samy
tried to quit but .....
07/26/2011
Contributor: playtimeohsofun playtimeohsofun
smoked from time i was 14 til i was 18 quit and have not started again glad they so expensive!
07/26/2011
Contributor: Jul!a Jul!a
I recently quit. Well, more accurate would be that I quit buying. I have friends that smoke and I was open and up front about I quit buying rather than I quit because we've had other friends say they were quitting then bum half a pack. Since I only end up bumming one or two the one night we're all out together, nobody really seems to mind much. And if they asked me to toss them a few bucks to cover a pack, I probably would.
07/26/2011
Contributor: Lucky21 Lucky21
When I drink, and after sex sometimes.
07/26/2011
Contributor: newfoundlust newfoundlust
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Originally posted by El-Jaro
I just quit smoking about a week ago. I'm just wondering if anyone else has done this and what their input is.
Best of luck to you. Neither of us have ever been smokers, due at least in part to both of us losing grandparents to cancer who smoked. My mom did it cold turkey about 25 years ago, and has never gone back. You can do it, and we hope you do.
07/26/2011
Contributor: ThoughtsAblaze ThoughtsAblaze
I was always repulsed by my mom's cigarette smoke and vowed then never to smoke. But a few years ago, I started hanging out at a local philosophy club and spent enough nights with a dozen pipe-smoking dudes in a vent-less room to get over that repulsion. I very nearly tried smoking a pipe a few times, but was always afraid I'd make a fool of myself. Now certain pipe smoke scents are a turn-on for me, and I can stand to be near anyone smoking a pipe or cigarettes.
07/26/2011
Contributor: Rin (aka Nire) Rin (aka Nire)
My dad used to smoke like a chimney, starting when he and my mom split up. It pissed me off - not only was he damaging his own lungs, but potentially mine, my brother's, and my cat's, as well, and when he smoked I took a lot longer to recover from even the smallest illness. Plus, I smelled like smoke, and I really hated that because people always assumed that I was the smoker. He quit cold turkey quite a while ago (during a time he was mad at me, so that he could use "the silent treatment" to avoid letting his nicotine-starved nerves blow up on me when we talked), and I don't think I've ever been prouder of him.

Now really, I don't much care whether most people smoke or not, but it really annoys me to be in the room with a smoker. I can tolerate it if we're holding a conversation, but from the moment the cig's lit to the moment it's put out all I can think is, "Just knock it off."
07/26/2011
Contributor: v23 v23
I used to smoke, not often. I decided I didn't want to because of health issues.
07/27/2011
Contributor: sarki sarki
I quit after a few years of smoking and haven't looked back
I don't reek any more
07/27/2011
Contributor: Ash1141 Ash1141
I've been a 2 pack/day smoker for 13 years. I just quit cold turkey 2 months ago. Still going strong.
10/17/2011
Contributor: Miss Anonymous Miss Anonymous
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Originally posted by El-Jaro
I just quit smoking about a week ago. I'm just wondering if anyone else has done this and what their input is.
I don't smoke. I never have, and I don't have any plans on starting.
10/17/2011
Contributor: Pink Jewel Pink Jewel
I don't smoke and never will. I can not stand the smell of them.
10/18/2011
Contributor: kadytheredpanda kadytheredpanda
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Originally posted by El-Jaro
I just quit smoking about a week ago. I'm just wondering if anyone else has done this and what their input is.
Cigarette smoke makes me really sick, so if a guy or gal smokes it's a huge disqualifier for me.
10/18/2011